lazerwalker

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by lazerwalker 8y ago
Honestly? My VPN setup works for me, so I haven't particularly bothered to spend time investigating alternatives. It's not that I do or don't trust it more than Tor. That said, the few times in the far past I've tried to
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by lazerwalker 8y ago
I can't read the original article, but I'd hope it has a rational discussion of threat models? I don't necessarily assume my VPN is 100% secure; I do trust a company that I pay money to more than I trust that nobody's sn
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by lazerwalker 8y ago
"If it's anything like emacs or vim" is a very ambitious goal.
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by lazerwalker 8y ago
Agree completely, although I wouldn't go so far as to say looks are the only reason someone would ride an 'impractical' bike. I pretty much only use fixed-gear bikes for city riding, even in cities like San Francisco and Seat
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by lazerwalker 8y ago
I've experienced this in my current fund-raising endeavors. A reductive narrative: a lot of investors like to pattern-match, and SV is full of many more success stories of a small tight-knit team collaborating well in a tiny shared gar
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by lazerwalker 8y ago
Both you and this comment's parent are correct. Which doesn't say anything about the nature of software engineering or project management, but more the importance of taking context into account when considering advice.
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by lazerwalker 8y ago
I don't know why you're getting so heavily downvoted. The only subtle tweak I'd make to your comparison is that Apple's rules are not clearly laid out in advance. In this specific case, Apple had previously approved th
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by lazerwalker 8y ago
Google's business model, in broad strokes, is selling user data to advertisers. Apple's business model, in broad strokes, is charging consumers premium prices for hardware. As long as Apple thinks the market values user privacy, t
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by lazerwalker 8y ago
> Too many apps slow down your phone. They take up memory space, run background processes, and constantly check for push notifications even when not in use. This is provably false on iOS, yeah? iOS's backgrounding model means apps t
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by lazerwalker 8y ago
FWIW, they're not that active at the Factory (a coworking space / startup community with offices in Kreuzburg and Mitte). Members have limited access to a global network of Google coworking spaces, and Google hosts office hours fo
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by lazerwalker 8y ago
The parent seemed to be describing a situation where there was a market whereby good talent will inherently flow from bad projects to good projects within an organization. I think my point is they usually don't migrate to a new project
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by lazerwalker 8y ago
I think it's a mistake to view individuals as having some objective constant measure of "quality". A "bottom 10%" employee can thrive in the right environment. A formerly-star employee might completely tank when pla
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by lazerwalker 8y ago
The tricky bit for #4 is if you're, say, a high-performing engineer on a team that's being poorly mis-managed so as to create little business value, getting a disappointing performance review is far more likely to cause you to lea
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by lazerwalker 8y ago
"Works" and "is maintained" are two very different things.
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by lazerwalker 8y ago
Peter Thiel is a major investor and board seat holder in Lyft. If your politics lead you to believe Uber is not an ethical company, that might also give you pause.
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by lazerwalker 8y ago
Hah! Utterly delightful. So much for thinking "oh, it absolutely can't be a matter of familiarity"
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by lazerwalker 8y ago
I'm intimately familiar with GitHub's UI from both my OSS work and previous employers. I know GitLab can do everything GitHub can do (and more!) but it infuriates me how long it takes me to figure out how to do things I can do in
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by lazerwalker 8y ago
Games feel like a separate edge case. One of the most common complaints about cross-platform apps is they don't "feel native" or adhere to platform UX expectations. With games, there's an expectation they'll provide
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by lazerwalker 8y ago
This is super interesting! I wonder if there's a clear trend or explanation for Czech-Texans moving (back?) to the Czech Republic? This does a great job of explaining a connection between Czech culture and Texas BBQ in Texas, but not h
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by lazerwalker 8y ago
Given that Atom is created/maintained by GitHub, and GitHub is now owned by Microsoft, that's technically untrue :P
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by lazerwalker 8y ago
I feel really conflicted about this. On the one hand, there's a clear value proposition here: instead of paying a few bucks a month for a VPN, you can instead pay by giving a giant megacompany your private data. The problem is we as a
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by lazerwalker 8y ago
> That's just, like, your opinion, man. Society certainly does not need so many graduates in English Literature: there are only so many open positions at McDonalds, and they as a rule do not require a degree. This strikes me as a de
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by lazerwalker 8y ago
It's of course far easier to armchair design, but I could imagine it working well enough? Each individual cell is ~12 lines of very short line lengths, yeah? You can easily fit a single cell on-screen with a keyboard while editing (or
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by lazerwalker 8y ago
I'd think, that of all the components in a not-user-upgradable stationary desktop computer, storage is the one that's easily solved through external devices. I obviously don't know your particularly needs, and gather there&#x
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by lazerwalker 8y ago
I recently switched from a Hackintosh to a brand-new MacBook Pro. My desktop was/is way more powerful than the new laptop, but MAN is the new MBP more enjoyable to use. Some things I ran into on a daily basis: * GPU support (at least w
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by lazerwalker 8y ago
> On some flights they don't even serve drinks anymore (unless you pay). Great recipe for dehydration. Flights that don't serve free drinks tend to be (at least in my experience) SUPER cheap budget airlines. In the bygone age o
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by lazerwalker 8y ago
If you disagree with someone over a technical decision, that's one thing. Assuming you're a professional software developer, I'd like to think at least once in your career you've managed to find common ground with someon
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by lazerwalker 8y ago
I broke my foot a year ago and spent three months on crutches. For a lot of that period, crossing the street or walking down the block was a meaningfully difficult task for me. Whenever I called a rideshare, I very explicitly set the needle
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by lazerwalker 8y ago
I wonder why this is called Proton Native and advertises itself as "using the same syntax as React Native" instead of just _being_ React Native. There's already plenty of prior art for RN-compatible projects that target non-m
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by lazerwalker 8y ago
It's worth calling out that this article is from August 2017. As of January 2018, California has legalized cannabis, so the "medicine" doublespeak is no longer necessary in this specific case.

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